Matt Lawrence
Matt is awesome! Research methods is definitely not the most exciting of topics in the soc department, but this class was structured really well and I learned a lot. The class is based around a pilot research project where you get to pick your own topic and conduct preliminary research and ends with a research paper.
I quite enjoyed this class, and no class has ever gotten me closer to considering a sociology major. This served not only as a good introductory course, but a specific one, in that you got to understand many of the base topics within sociology while looking at them through a frame you wanted to learn about. Loved prof. Lawrence.
Prof. Lawrence chooses the readings very well, many of them cut deep into the American society. Even if you are not interested in sociology, this course would still interest you. Not a lot of homework, but there would be a paper of 12-15 pages at the end of the semester.